4:24 PM,
Nov. 27, 2013

Rutgers and Fairleigh Dickinson played in front of rows of mostly empty bleachers on Tuesday at the RAC.

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They were lonely figures in a sea of bleachers, the seven freshmen who comprised the entire student section for the Rutgers men's basketball home game against Fairleigh Dickinson Tuesday night.

One of them wasn't even a Rutgers student. Chris McConnell attends Misericordia, a Division III school in Pennsylvania, but sitting next to his old Warren Hills High School buddy Ronnie Legreide, McConnell put the scene into perspective.

"There's actually a lot of people that go to our games (at Misericordia)," McConnell said during halftime of Rutgers' 73-72 loss to FDU. "Our student section is ...